Comments on: Beijing Olympics come at a high price http://emphaticasterisk.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/ I am a gay-affirming pro-choice left-wing loony pacifist environmental nutjob Christian! Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thatdudeyouknow http://emphaticasterisk.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-1049 thatdudeyouknow Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:17:46 +0000 http://shushnow.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-1049 Ooooh.... Olympics, olympics, olympics... Remember that both communist Soviet as well as Nazi Germany have hosted the olympics. Why should China be different? Are there any info of demolishing areas etc for those olympics? It would be interesting... Hi, Shush. Amber referred me to you. I'm just looking around in the posts you recommended. :) Ooooh…. Olympics, olympics, olympics…
Remember that both communist Soviet as well as Nazi Germany have hosted the olympics. Why should China be different?
Are there any info of demolishing areas etc for those olympics? It would be interesting…

Hi, Shush. Amber referred me to you. I’m just looking around in the posts you recommended. :)

]]> By: @mmonyte http://emphaticasterisk.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-196 @mmonyte Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:31:18 +0000 http://shushnow.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-196 Whilst still on the subject of China, there is the topic of their treatment of Falun Gong: http://www.religioustolerance.org/falungong.htm Precedents for an Olympic boycott include:- 1976 (Montreal) 25 African countries boycott the games in protest at New Zealand's sporting links with apartheid era South Africa http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17/newsid_3555000/3555450.stm 1980 (Moscow) US & 60 others stay away or (like the UK) send "unofficial" teams in protest at Russian occupation of Afghanistan 1984 (Los Angeles) Russia, Cuba & 14 other nations boycott in retaliation for 1980 The bottom line remains that the IOC should never have awarded the games to Beijing in the first place. Whilst still on the subject of China, there is the topic of their treatment of Falun Gong: http://www.religioustolerance.org/falungong.htm

Precedents for an Olympic boycott include:-

1976 (Montreal) 25 African countries boycott the games in protest at New Zealand’s sporting links with apartheid era South Africa http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17/newsid_3555000/3555450.stm

1980 (Moscow) US & 60 others stay away or (like the UK) send “unofficial” teams in protest at Russian occupation of Afghanistan

1984 (Los Angeles) Russia, Cuba & 14 other nations boycott in retaliation for 1980

The bottom line remains that the IOC should never have awarded the games to Beijing in the first place.

]]> By: shush http://emphaticasterisk.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-174 shush Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:55:03 +0000 http://shushnow.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-174 Hetta: I heard that the US team is bringing in their own food and chefs because of food safety standards. Yikes! (The book and Pepsi have been marvelous!) @mmonyte: wow- thanks for the info and the link. The more I discover about all of this, the more sick it makes me to my stomach. I'd heard about the dogs in Athens, and as I said even the US had questionable practices when they hosted. *sighs* Hetta: I heard that the US team is bringing in their own food and chefs because of food safety standards. Yikes! (The book and Pepsi have been marvelous!)

@mmonyte: wow- thanks for the info and the link. The more I discover about all of this, the more sick it makes me to my stomach. I’d heard about the dogs in Athens, and as I said even the US had questionable practices when they hosted. *sighs*

]]> By: @mmonyte http://emphaticasterisk.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-166 @mmonyte Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:42:11 +0000 http://shushnow.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-166 The British Olympic Association has tried to insert a clause into athletes' contracts to prevent them commenting on contentious issues. Fortunately an outcry has caused them to re-think the issue, but you can see where things are going. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513362&in_page_id=1770&ct=5) Almost all countries that host the Olympics engage in activities they woul rather draw a veil over. In Athens in 2004 they rounded up all stray dogs for execution. Some animal welfare charities in other countries got to hear about this and went out there, and rescued many of the doomed animals (which is how my sister came to own her current mutt) And then there is the situation in Zimbabwe, where today the evil dictator Robert Mugabe celebrated his birthday whilst his subjects starve. It has been suggested that there should be a sporting boycott (OK this mainly involves cricket so will probably have gone unreported in the USA), however the sporting authorities have resisted this, which in my view is a racist position, because if Mugabe was white, there is no question at all that his regime would be totally isolated. The British Olympic Association has tried to insert a clause into athletes’ contracts to prevent them commenting on contentious issues. Fortunately an outcry has caused them to re-think the issue, but you can see where things are going. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513362&in_page_id=1770&ct=5)

Almost all countries that host the Olympics engage in activities they woul rather draw a veil over. In Athens in 2004 they rounded up all stray dogs for execution. Some animal welfare charities in other countries got to hear about this and went out there, and rescued many of the doomed animals (which is how my sister came to own her current mutt)

And then there is the situation in Zimbabwe, where today the evil dictator Robert Mugabe celebrated his birthday whilst his subjects starve. It has been suggested that there should be a sporting boycott (OK this mainly involves cricket so will probably have gone unreported in the USA), however the sporting authorities have resisted this, which in my view is a racist position, because if Mugabe was white, there is no question at all that his regime would be totally isolated.

]]> By: hetta http://emphaticasterisk.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-164 hetta Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:23:22 +0000 http://shushnow.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/beijing-olympics-come-at-a-high-price/#comment-164 :( Yuck, yick, ick, hack... Man, and you know, from what I've heard the monstrocities they are building for this Olympic Games are not in compliance with safety standards-- an earthquake, terrorist, etc..buffet if you will. I don't know how things "stand" at the moment, but as an athelete I think I'd skip this one. Enjoy your book and Pepsi! What a nice guy :) :( Yuck, yick, ick, hack…

Man, and you know, from what I’ve heard the monstrocities they are building for this Olympic Games are not in compliance with safety standards– an earthquake, terrorist, etc..buffet if you will. I don’t know how things “stand” at the moment, but as an athelete I think I’d skip this one.

Enjoy your book and Pepsi! What a nice guy :)

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